SOURCE: Fujitsu America

 

Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900: Dynamic Cube

Fujitsu ServerView RCVE Screenshot: Server Resource List

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - May 12, 2009) - Fujitsu today announces a cornerstone in its global market growth program for x86 servers, with the introduction of the Dynamic Cube -- the new-generation PRIMERGY® BX900 blade server system featuring Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 and the Fujitsu ServerView™ Resource Coordinator VE (RCVE) virtualization-management software. This new-generation PRIMERGY BX900 blade system, available to order immediately, spearheads the global growth program of Fujitsu to increase its market share for x86 servers, with a worldwide server sales goal of 500,000 units in 2010.

News Highlights

• The PRIMERGY BX900 is built on four guiding principles. The first is a dynamic new power and cooling concept to reduce energy costs. The second is to achieve improvements in operational performance, through dynamic virtualization. The third principle of the PRIMERGY BX900 concept is to deliver unmatched uptime, via dynamic high availability. Finally, guaranteed investment protection is accomplished through the fourth principle, new system architecture offering dynamic scalability.
• The PRIMERGY BX900 is a complete dynamic server infrastructure in a single blade cube. By using the PRIMERGY BX900, customers can adapt dynamically to different IT usage scenarios, increasing the agility of IT infrastructures while reducing costs.
• Dynamic Power and Cooling: The PRIMERGY BX900 is a leader in terms of reduced energy consumption: it operates at new levels of power efficiency, and sets new standards thanks to the Fujitsu Cool-safe® cooling and design concept. As a direct result, by moving to a PRIMERGY BX900 server, customers can expect to reduce energy costs by thousands of dollars per chassis per year.*
• Dynamic Virtualization: Equipped with the latest Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 series, large memory capacities and state-of-the-art I/O performance, the PRIMERGY BX900 is designed to deliver leading virtualization capabilities. With the full integration of new ServerView RCVE management software, the PRIMERGY BX900 can simplify IT operations by delivering uniform operations for pools of physical and virtual servers and visualizing the connections of the network. ServerView RCVE can provide a uniform view of up to one thousand PRIMERGY chassis, racks, towers, and even third party systems to create a dynamic server pool of widely deployed hypervisors and operating systems. The flexibility, reliability, and management control of ServerView RCVE coupled with the BX900 hardware, can provide the necessary infrastructure for successfully deploying cloud architectures. In addition, this solution can automate IT operations, reducing time for the provisioning or exchanging of servers by up to 90 percent.
• Dynamic High Availability: The PRIMERGY BX900 is designed for full redundancy, reducing unplanned system downtime. It features software-managed hardware failover, and every single active component is hot-swappable.
• Dynamic Scalability: By design, the PRIMERGY BX900 is optimized for investment protection through its scalability. Created in cooperation with Intel, the system has a stackable, high-density design that enables performance upgrades through the addition of further PRIMERGY BX900 units. In addition, the new system architecture enables Fujitsu to offer two more blades in a standard 10U chassis than any other vendor design -- with a record-taking 18-blade design. Thanks to these extra blades, the Dynamic Cube immediately offers 12 percent more system performance in comparison to other vendors' blade systems.
• Pricing and availability: PRIMERGY BX900 can be ordered now. Pricing starts at $10,791. The PRIMERGY BX900 is backed by comprehensive support from the Fujitsu worldwide services organization, providing a one-stop shop for the full planning, design, implementation and management of complex IT infrastructures. Thanks to a global team of IT services professionals, Fujitsu delivers holistic IT solutions.

Quotes

Richard McCormack, SVP, Server & Solutions Business, Fujitsu America
"The PRIMERGY BX900 is the latest in a series of Fujitsu investments in datacenter facilities, network operations, managed services and cloud computing products and services. These initiatives support the Fujitsu America goal of being one of the leading IT infrastructure solutions providers in North America. Specifically, the Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900 will help us meet customer needs in vertical markets -- such as datacenter consolidation in manufacturing; records storage management in healthcare; power conservation in education and government public sectors; reliable high availability in financial services and telecommunications."

Vernon Turner, SVP of Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC
"With the introduction of the Dynamic Cube, Fujitsu really raises the stakes in the datacenter blade market sector. The combination of the system's superior performance, its powerful virtualization capabilities and its power savings add up to make the PRIMERGY BX900 an attractive proposition. We expect to see Fujitsu gain share in the upper segment of the blade server market as a direct consequence of this launch."

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About Fujitsu America, Inc.
Fujitsu America, Inc. provides a complete portfolio of business technology services, computing platforms, and industry solutions. Fujitsu platform products are based on scalable, reliable and high-performance server, storage, software, point-of-sale, and mobile technologies. Fujitsu combines its renowned platform offerings with a full suite of onshore, near shore and offshore system integration, outsourcing, and datacenter services covering applications, operations, infrastructure, customer service, and multi-vendor lifecycle services. Fujitsu provides industry-specific solutions for retail, manufacturing, healthcare, government, education, financial services, and telecommunications sectors. For more information on Fujitsu America's business scope, visit http://solutions.us.fujitsu.com/.

About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a leading provider of IT-based business solutions for the global marketplace. With approximately 175,000 employees supporting customers in 70 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$47 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com.

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Editor’s Note: Calculation is based on comparison of theoretical power consumption between 10 PRIMERGY RX200 S5 rack servers and 10 PRIMERGY blades in a BX900 system. In total, the PRIMERGY BX900 blades deliver average cost savings of $1500 per year, based on an average unit price of 10 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh).